- (n.) A combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials of a name; a device; a monogram; as, a painter's cipher, an engraver's cipher, etc. The cut represents the initials N. W.
- (n.) A character in general, as a figure or letter.
- (n.) A private alphabet, system of characters or other mode of writing, contrived for the safe transmission of secrets; also, a writing in such characters.
- (v.t.) To decipher.
- (v.i.) To use figures in a mathematical process; to do sums in arithmetic.
- (a.) Of the nature of a cipher; of no weight or influence.
- (v.t.) To get by ciphering; as, to cipher out the answer.
- (v.t.) To designate by characters.
- (n.) A character [0] which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold.
- (v.t.) To write in occult characters.
- (n.) One who or that which, has no weight or influence.
Cipher and Codification
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
noun
- A message written in a secret code.
- synonyms: cypher
- A mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number.
- A quantity of no importance.
- usage: "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it"
- A person of no influence.
- A secret method of writing.
- synonyms: cypher, cryptograph, secret code
verb
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
(DoD) Any cryptographic system in which arbitrary symbols (or groups of symbols) represent units of plain text of regular length, usually single letters; units of plain text are rearranged; or both, in accordance with certain predetermined rules. See also cryptosystem.
Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.
noun
- The act of codifying; arranging in a systematic order.
- A set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones. ).
- synonyms: code
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